Political Quotes

“I learned an awful lot. One of the things that I learned is that we are approaching what I think will be a golden age of medicine. We are making such incredible breakthroughs right now in biotechnology and genetic engineering, in pharmacology, in the development of high-tech medical devices, that I believe that we are going to give the next generation in the next century, as well as many of us, opportunities to defeat diseases that have plagued mankind for a very long time, and be able to relieve people from their suffering from these diseases. But central to this promise is the role of the Food and Drug Administration. The Food and Drug Administration exists for the very critical job of making certain that all of these miracle cures, all of these devices and drugs, are both safe and effective. The problem we discovered is that the agency had become bureaucratic, and the law that governs it had become antiquated and was not keeping up with this modern age of miracle cures.”